NP: For Your Consideration

[Mark Kohut]

VERY nice...

On Wed, Jan 17, 2018 at 11:53 AM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> "Interstices" is a ripe word, full of meaning.
>
> Makes me think of fuzzy borders, stitches between fabrics, transitions
> between eras.  I think GRs Pynchon would call it the Zone.
>
> David Morris
>
> On Wed, Jan 17, 2018 at 10:46 AM Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I had a work friend once who was always saying his preference was for
>> the interstices.  This was very long ago but I think it was something like,
>> in Pynchonian terms,  preferring the noise to the signal. Or maybe the
>> excluded middle. He had a very interesting mind. I wish I could remember an
>> example.
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 17, 2018 at 6:40 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> This line is within throwing distance of a terrif Pynchon line, imho.
>>>
>>> "Meaning is being made in the saccades and the interstitial spaces you
>>> ignore."  Even better than Jochen's pun, we get a new image of the real
>>> world's meaning  as not found on paper. Not in them there university press
>>> books. The real territory is in the holes in the map, so to imagine.
>>>
>>> Yes, I had to look up 'saccades', didju?
>>>
>>>  As above, so below.
>>>
>>> On Tue, Jan 16, 2018 at 2:16 PM, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Dylan's Mr Jones was a bit more easy on the ear
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Jan 15, 2018 at 5:44 PM, Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I don’t quite know who he is addressing
>>>>> or what are the miracles
>>>>> or when they begin
>>>>> otherwise it does seem highly insulting
>>>>>
>>>>> > On Jan 15, 2018, at 4:01 PM, Monte Davis <montedavis49 at gmail.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>> >
>>>>> > From Gnomon, by Nick Harkaway:
>>>>> >
>>>>> > "You sit reading news that has nothing new in it, telling yourself
>>>>> that because you hold in your hand some glossy skeuomorphic lozenge you are
>>>>> technologically au fait, and that because you know where in the endless
>>>>> repetition of tribal politics and fairy dust economics your world is, or
>>>>> have consumed many of those books published in pale cream jackets by
>>>>> university presses, you are somehow informed about what is important.
>>>>> >
>>>>> > You are not. Meaning is being made in the saccades and the
>>>>> interstitial spaces you ignore. When the miracles begin, you will declare
>>>>> that the world has taken a great leap forward, and —wearing the amazed
>>>>> expression of a pantomime clown—you will quote Proust as tomorrow’s
>>>>> children make jokes that derive their humour from puns invoking senses you
>>>>> do not have. You will wear your bewilderment first as modish nostalgia and
>>>>> then as politically charged performance art, and finally as a proud, doomed
>>>>> ethical position whose idiot gravity you cannot escape. You will go to your
>>>>> grave protesting that everyone else has misunderstood. Oh, bravo. Bravo."
>>>>>
>>>>> -
>>>>> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?listpynchon-l
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
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